Chapter Thirteen The Nineteen-Year-Old Country Gate
"Can you tell me what kind of person Hu Lai is?"
After Danny Drew asked, he saw the smile on Chen Xingyi's face solidify, so he asked strangely: "Uh, what's wrong? Do you two have any conflicts? I thought you were teammates on the Chinese team,
We should know something about each other..."
Chen Xingyi came back to his senses and quickly waved his hands and explained: "No, no, you are overthinking, it's not a contradiction. I just don't know how to tell you... When you ask him what kind of person he is, sometimes I
I don’t know what kind of person he is...in short, he is a very complicated...person."
"A very complicated person? Of course, people are very complicated..." Drew nodded, expressing understanding.
Chen Xingyi shook his head: "No, Danny. It may be a little different from what you understand by 'complex'."
Drew stared at Chen Xingyi again with wide eyes, but this time he was not acting maliciously, but was really confused.
"How should I put it... A very common thing will have two completely different meanings when it is said from someone else's mouth and when it is said from his mouth, even if what he and others say actually mean the same thing..."
Little question marks began to appear in Drew's widened eyes.
"Sometimes you think he means this, but actually he means something else. Sometimes you think he means something else, but in fact he means this. Sometimes you think he means this
He did mean this, but you still can't help but wonder if he meant something else..."
"Stop." Drew couldn't help but raise his hand to stop Chen Xingyi from continuing, "Let me... think about it."
Chen Xingyi stopped talking and lowered his head to eat his lunch.
The lunch provided by the club tastes very good, and it's not like what everyone thinks professional players eat all day long.
Steak, French fries, broccoli, baked beans...
He used knives, forks and spoons skillfully, ignoring Drew who seemed to be down on the opposite side.
After a while, Drew seemed to finally recover from the stop of responding: "This means, that means... after you said it, Hu is indeed a very complicated person..."
Chen Xingyi looked down at the nearly eaten steak on the plate and sighed: "Danny, let me give you a piece of advice."
"Hey, you said."
"If...I mean if, if one day you meet Hu in a game, remember to wear soundproof earplugs to play."
Drew was stunned for a moment, then grinned: "Ha! Xing, you are so funny! Why?"
"Because Hu will talk to you."
"Talk to me? You mean trash talk, right? Don't worry, Xing. I won't pay attention to him." Drew shook his head and said confidently, "But I won't wear earplugs on the field. That way I
I couldn’t hear my teammates’ shouts and the referee’s whistle.”
Chen Xingyi wanted to say, "Even if you ignore him, I'm afraid it won't help," but after thinking about it, he thought it would be too troublesome to explain, so he just didn't say it.
"Yeah, that's fine." He nodded perfunctorily, and then changed the subject: "Why do you suddenly want to get to know him?"
"Aren't you going to Paris to attend the award ceremony for the best young player in Europe? I should meet him there, just to find out what kind of person he is first..."
Chen Xingyi suddenly realized.
Twenty-two-year-old Danny Drew was also selected as the ten-man shortlist for the European Best Young Player Award, so he will also go to Paris.
This can be regarded as an event for the top young players in Europe.
It just has nothing to do with myself...
Chen Xingyi felt a little sad.
He has nothing to do with this event in his life.
Because he has reached the age of twenty-three, he is no longer eligible to be on the candidate list.
In fact, not only is he gone, but so are Luo Kai, Wang Guangwei and Brother Huan.
But he was still a little frustrated.
He is not comforted by the fact that there are people like him. After all, no matter what others are like, what matters is whether he himself has it or not.
He didn't.
The person who had been inseparable from him in the finals of the national competition had now fallen further and further behind him.
Chen Xingyi sighed inwardly and buried himself in eating.
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The Columbus Stadium, Eldrea's home stadium, was filled with people.
The second round of Serie A matches is underway.
Eldrea plays Ferenc at home.
The two teams were close in strength, so the game was very tangled.
Wang Guangwei and his agent Shan Daosheng sat in the stands and watched the game live.
He was surrounded by excited and enthusiastic Eldrea fans.
They were wearing Eldrea's red and blue striped shirts, waving Eldrea's red and blue scarves in their hands, and were singing songs to cheer for the team in the stands.
During the game, Eldrea, who played at home, took the initiative and was constantly attacking Ferenc's goal.
But the score is still 0:0.
"He is indeed the 'New Bernie' Albertazzi..." Shan Daosheng sighed towards the competition court. "Eldrea has shot so many times, but none of them can penetrate his goal."
In the stadium, in front of Ferenc's goal, a tall young goalkeeper was getting up from the ground, with a very calm expression on his face.
It was completely impossible to tell that he had just made a supreme save to save a header from Eldrea striker Filippo Chigrosi from close range over the crossbar...
You must know that this is not an ordinary header by Chigrosi. He took off on the spot on the line of the small penalty area. The distance was very close. He also headed a rebound ball and the football first flew to the ground, then rebounded and shot toward the goal.
This kind of ball is often very difficult to save.
Chigrosi's header level is very high, and he is worthy of being a former Italian international.
But Ferenc's main goalkeeper Mauro Albertazzi made an incredible save, almost reflexively waving the ball over the crossbar.
When Zigrosi headed the goal, the Eldrea fans thought the goal was a sure goal, so cheers exploded in the stands.
Who would have thought that the ball would be saved by Albertazzi immediately afterwards...
The cheers instantly turned into sighs of regret. The scene was quite spectacular.
"How else could I be selected for the ten-person shortlist for the European Best Young Player Award?" Wang Guangwei said beside him.
Mauro Albertazzi, a talented goalkeeper trained by Ferenc, is currently being snapped up by Italian giants. It is estimated that this season will be his last season at Ferenc...
At the age of seventeen, Albertazzi started playing the main role in Ferenc, and at the age of eighteen he was selected for the Italian national team. If the current main goalkeeper of the Italian national team, Andrew Burney, was not too stable, Albertazzi would even be able to represent Italy as the main goalkeeper.
When Italy participates in this summer's World Cup, almost everyone believes that in terms of strength alone, Albertazzi is no longer inferior to legendary Italian goalkeeper Andrew Burney.
Andrew Birney has also announced his retirement from the national team after this World Cup.
If nothing else goes wrong, Albertazzi will become Italy's main goalkeeper in the two national team games in September.
The nineteen-year-old Italian international...
"In China, our players under the age of 23 still need to rely on the Football Association's policy to get the opportunity to play in the Super League... In Europe, at the age of 19, they can already become the main force of the national team..." Wang Guangwei sighed.
A cry, "This gap!"
"There's nothing we can do about it. Who told us to start late? How many generations have we accumulated?" Shan Daosheng comforted him, "And didn't Hu Lai help us fight for it this year? The best young player award this time is basically
It's his, and he didn't run away. This is not only the first in China, but also the first in Asia. When Park Soon-tae played in Europe, he was only selected for the candidate list and did not win the final award. It's really quite cool when you think about it.
Incredible……"
Speaking of this, Shan Daosheng was also very sad: "Our Chinese players can actually surpass these European and American geniuses. Before I thought it was a pipe dream..."
Wang Guangwei smiled and said: "Because he is Hu Lai, so I am not too surprised."
While the two were talking, Albertazzi jumped into the air again on the court and directly caught the long-range shot of the Eldrea player without even giving him a chance to make up the shot.
Eldrea's attack once again failed.
"Oh... I don't know if I made it to the candidate list, but I feel like Albert Qi is particularly excited today..." Shan Daosheng said with emotion.
Wang Guangwei thought of Hu Lai and curled his lips: "It's useless to be excited, I'm destined to run with you."
In fact, Albertazzi was selected into the ten-man shortlist for the European Best Young Player Award last year, but did not win the final award.
Enter again this year.
But it’s still hard to win.
It is difficult for the goalkeeper position to win this honor because offensive players have to attract more attention.
Fortunately, he is still young enough and still has a chance.
After all, he is already the main goalkeeper of the national team at the age of nineteen...
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"Being the main goalkeeper for the national team at the age of 19? What's so great about that? I was only 20 years old when I guarded the national team in the World Cup. Did I publicize it everywhere? I didn't. Am I proud? No.
.At the age of nineteen, he will be the main force in the national team... bah!"